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Garden Heights

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Hatchet — Gary Paulsen
Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study

Hatchet

a novel by Gary Paulsen
Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is the only passenger on a small bush plane heading to visit his father in the Canadian wilderness when the pilot dies of a heart attack in mid-air. Brian manages to crash-land the plane into a remote lake and drags himself ashore with nothing but the clothes he is wearing and a hatchet his mother gave him. Alone in the forest, he must learn — through hunger, failure, a porcupine, a moose, and a tornado — to make fire, find food, build shelter, and above all master his own fear and despair. Over fifty-four days he is transformed from a frightened city boy into someone patient, observant, and tough. Gary Paulsen’s Newbery Honor survival classic (1988) is one of the most gripping wilderness-survival stories ever written for young readers. These 8 Part workbooks cover the full novel, with vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, Think Deeper reasoning, SAT & TOEFL-style practice, and writing, all built on real-world CLIL background.
Level 5Newbery Honor 1988Interactive & auto-gradedCLIL-based
Library  ›  Hatchet
Level 5 · Strong ReadersUS Grade 5–7Lexile 1020LAR (ATOS) 5.7 · Newbery Honor (1988)
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Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
🔥 Wilderness Survival & the Boreal Forest
Fire-making and the fire triangle, building shelter, foraging edible wild plants, fishing and hunting with primitive tools — the bow and the fish spear — and the survival “rule of threes.”
SUPPORTING
🧠 The Psychology of Resilience
How Brian survives mentally: observation over self-pity, patience, problem-solving under stress, learning from failure, and adapting to whatever the wilderness throws at him.
SUPPORTING
🌳 Coming of Age & “the Secret”
Brian’s emotional survival runs alongside the physical: the burden of his parents’ divorce — “the Secret” — and how the ordeal transforms him into a new person.
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